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January 2011 Entries

Here’s a quick tip for something that I ran into again this weekend. I was creating service accounts in my development environment’s Active Directory, and one of the names was a little long. My account name was: AccessServicesAppPool . When I went to SharePoint Central Admin and tried to add my new service account, I kept getting an account not found message. I even cut-n-pasted the user name, but that didn’t work. What I failed to notice was that the “pre-Windwos 2000” login was truncated by one ......

This weekend I decided to rebuild the family’s Mac Mini. It’s the early 2009 model and I hadn’t done it since we got it in March of 2009. Even worse, I had done the import data step (or whatever Apple calls it) which brought over all of the data files and apps from our previous Mac. AND that install goes back to before 2005, as far as I can remember. SO, to say that “cruft” had built up in the operating system, is probably a bit of an understatement. The rebuild went pretty smoothly, especially since ......